Driven by eternity

Driven by eternity – this was a slogan of our Winter Bible Conference we came back from few days ago.

The goal of this conference was to motivate students consider their life in the perspective of eternity and everlasting history of God. We wanted to inspire them to live a purposeful, dedicated and sacrificial life for God. And that will certainly influence the lives of other people.

A group of students from Odessa

There was a speaker who developed this topic for us, there were seminars for students based on their level of spiritual maturity that helped students get different practical skills for life and ministry. And of coarse we had an Evangelism - we went to meet people and shared the Good News with them. It was a huge step of faith for many students. The first experience in sharing their faith.

We prepared and prayed a lot for this event. I want to share with you some feedback from our students.

 

Andrey went to this conference being an atheist. He loves hanging out with Christians but he didn’t believe God existed. Here is what he said in the end: “Seeing all these people who are in love with God it would be insanity for me to continue refuse His existence”. Andrey hasn’t found God yet but he did a huge step towards Him – he admitted God’s existence and effect in people’s lives.

 

On the way to share the Good News

Dima accepted Christ few months ago. Evangelism at a conference affected him the most. When he came back here were his words: “I could not understand why those people were so unaware of their spiritual blindness.  They have crosses and icons all over their places but didn’t want to know God personally”.  It came from a mouth of a person who was as blind few months ago until the light of The Gospel lit his soul.

Natasha has been coming to CRU meetings for half of a year. She told me that she became a believer at this conference and repented.  

 

 

 

 

As Andrey did, Dima went to this conference as a non-Christian.  He hasn’t made a decision to follow Christ yet but we when he came back home from the conference he said that life “in this world” and life around Christians is absolutely opposite. In one day after being around his old friends he was sick of cursing and empty jokes. He wants to live like we do. “Let your light shine before man”.

Nadya was literally shining all the time. I haven’t seen somebody who would be so eager to learn about God and talk about Him. Her first love for God is blooming now. I believe that God will use her at her university to win many hearts for Jesus.   

 

 

 

Valik had a hard childhood. He grew up in the orphanage and he never knew his parents and never was adopted. Last semester he became a believer.  He said: « I finally found true friends. Somebody cares for me”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please join us in prayer for:

 - Conversion of Andrey and Dima

 - Spiritual growth of Nadya, Natasha, Dima and Valik. May God give them strength to apply everything they heard and spread the Word about Him.  

 - The beginning of the Evangelistic project about relationship between boys and girls in March. We want to reach out to new students and teach our young Christians to share their faith with them.

 - Please pray for the American Summer project in Ukraine. We are in a need of Americans who can come for a short Mission trip to Ukraine in July.

 

Serving alongside with you, Alina Rudik